Indicate whether you consider each of the following actions ethical, unethical, or a gray area. Which of the actions would you do? Which would you feel uncomfortable doing? Which would you refuse to do?

Discuss your answers with a small group of classmates.

In what ways did knowing you would share with a group change your answers?

7. Designing an ad campaign for a cigarette brand.
8. Working as an accountant for a company that makes or advertises cigarettes.
9. Working as a manager in a company that exploits its nonunionized hourly workers.
10. Writing copy for a company’s annual report hiding or minimizing the fact that the company pollutes the environment.
11. “Padding” your expense account by putting on it charges you did not pay for.
12. Telling a job candidate that the company “usually”
grants cost-of-living raises every six months, even though you know that the company is losing money and plans to cancel cost-of-living raises for the next year.
13. Laughing at the racist or sexist jokes a client makes, even though you find them offensive.
14. Reading the Wall Street Journal on company time.